I also used nearly double the amount of rhubarb recommended half a kilo instead of half a pound and would happily make this using a mix of rhubarb and sour bramley apples, or even just using sour apples if rhubarb is out of season.

I bought two big boxes of Victoria plums absolutely my favourite fruit in the whole world - when I was a child I would sit in the plum tree eating them until I gave myself stomach ache, two boxes of strawberries and some giant bramley apples.

Having spent most of their married life running three newsagents in west London, they decided to move out to Kent, buying 85 acres of bare land in 1983 which they planted from scratch - bramley orchards, vegetables, even the hedges.